Word: disappointed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...November the American people stilled the doubts that they had about Jimmy Carter and picked him over a decent and capable man because, essentially, he stood for change and a fresh beginning. "I'll try never to disappoint you," he used to say on the campaign trail, smiling confidently and looking ahead to the day he would be in the White House. That may be the hardest of all his promises to fulfill...
Garcia Marquez may disappoint those who are looking for The Return of One Hundred Years of Solitude. Instead of creating a swarm of characters, he has really animated only the Patriarch, whose monologue distills all other voices. And rather than using his blunt, ironic prose, he has fashioned an elaborate rhetoric that washes everything into a flow of phrases and thoughts...
...pray that I can live up to your confidence and never disappoint you," he said...
Phony Report. "I was ashamed to be who I was," Dean admits finally. Yet he tells nothing at all about the forces that formed him-at home, at Staunton Military Academy, in college. The book will disappoint anyone who wants to learn how Dean became the kind of man who would do almost anything to get placed on the "A-limousine list" in the White House, and gleefully watched workmen redoing his new, enlarged office just "for the sake of redecorating...
...spectators knew what was coming, and the Big Green's play selection did not disappoint them. Case took the ball from center, moved right, and began the hand-off to a charging Oberg. Ball, runner, and defense came together at the same instant, and Harvard was afforded one has miracle...